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URL Yellow verses Red

list Ralph Mitchell
Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:48:45 -0600
Message-Id: <user-acd3898312ae@xymon.invalid>

On 2/2/07, James Wade <user-659655b2ea05@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello,

On URL's, is there a way to say, turn them Yellow

instead of Red?


We have several development URL's and we want to

monitor them, but don't want Hobbit showing them

as Red, instead we'd like them to show Yellow.

Is this possible?
You can always roll your own.  I do that a lot... :)  Something along
the lines of:

   curl -o page.html http://server.domain.com
   X=`grep -ic "Some Content" page.html`
   if [ "$X" -gt "0" ]; then
     COLOR=green
   else
     COLOR=yellow
   fi
   /home/hobbit/server/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 "status server,domain,com.home
$COLOR `date`"

You'll probably want a bit more fluff in that, such as some kind of
meaningful message in the last line, and I usually include an href to
the original URL so the monitoring guys can just click through it.
You can also add a link to "page.html" if you store it somewhere in
your server DocumentRoot, but that can get complicated if it contains
relative urls.

I'm sure a Perl guru could give you something simpler, but I never did
get the hang of perl.

Ralph Mitchell